1917—1918
YEARS

DIRECTIVE TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF FINANCE*
~9U
December 21, 1918

It is imperative to find those responsible for the delay and bring them to trial.

Report to me:
- whether anyone has been found
- when the money was disbursed
- when it was first appropriated
- when it was first requisitioned?

Lenin

23768

TELEGRAM TO THE NIZHNY NOVGOROD COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY

December 26, 1918

Report on the creation of a commission for the distribution and utilization of longshoremen, the names of commission members and members of the board of the longshoremen's labor union.

Announce to them, in accordance with a decree of the Council of Defense, that upon their personal responsibility is placed the correct and undeviating conduct of work on cargo unloading and the attraction of the necessary number of workers. Any steps taken by longshoremen directed toward preventing outsiders from participating in unloading work shall be regarded as a crime, and those guilty shall be held liable to punishment ranging from a monetary fine equal to one week's wages to deprivation of freedom for a term of up to one year.

Chairman of the Council of Defense

Lenin

Printed from the original
signed by V. I. Lenin.

* The directive was written on a telephonogram from the Timber Board of the VSNKh
dated December 14, 1918 (the date is underlined in the original by V. I. Lenin)
containing a complaint about the delay by the Moscow office of the People's Bank in disbursing
money appropriated by the Council of People's Commissars for wood procurement.

LENIN MISCELLANY:
ON THE LIBRARY OF P. I. SURKOV

23073

TELEGRAM TO RODNIKI, IVANOVO-VOZNESENSK PROVINCE
TO THE DISTRICT COMMITTEE OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, COPY TO THE EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSION

December 26, 1918

Immediately unseal the storeroom and living quarters of Pyotr Ilyich Surkov in the village of Putilov. Report the names of those who carried out the sealing and their explanation of their actions — why they are requisitioning books. Telegraph confirmation of execution.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

Lenin

23677

TO THE RODNIKI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, IVANOVO-VOZNESENSK PROVINCE

December 28, 1918

Send by mail all your decrees concerning libraries. Surkov has agreed to turn his library over to the local workers' reading room, and this seems just to me.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

Lenin

2165

TO THE LIBRARY DEPARTMENT OF THE COMMISSARIAT OF POPULAR ENLIGHTENMENT

December 30, 1918

I request that you receive the bearer, Comrade Prokofyev. His request — to requisition the Surkov library for a district of 40,000 people — seems to me justified; perhaps certain rights of use could be retained by Surkov? I request that you send me a copy of your decree on this matter, and I also ask that you assist the comrades from Rodniki in expanding their library. Could one of the requisitioned landlords' libraries be sent to them? I request that you inform me of this as well.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)